Back in Time for School

Fifteen pupils and three teachers embark on a time-travelling adventure through 100 years of British education. They start in the Victorian era, enter a postwar grammar, a 1960s secondary modern and experience school at the beginning of the digital revolution in the 80s and 90s. Their journey offers them the chance to explore the subjects, playtime, school dinners, discipline and technology of different eras. They are joined along the way by presenter Sara Cox and social historian Polly Russell. …  MORE